Sanofi Pasteur to leverage its strong vaccine legacy in hunt for Zika vaccine
Feb 02, 2016, at 08:25 pm
Lyon, France/Kolkata , Feb 2 (IBNS): Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced today that it has launched a vaccine research and development project targeting the prevention of Zika virus infection and disease.
Govt to build Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory to study calamities
Feb 02, 2016, at 06:49 pm
Karad/Maharashtra, Feb 2 (IBNS) Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan led the Bhoomi-Pujan (an initiation ritual done before construction) ceremony for construction of the Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory at Hazarmachi, Karad, according to a government release.
Todd May named Marshall Space Flight Center Director
Feb 02, 2016, at 02:28 pm
California, Feb 2 (IBNS) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Todd May director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. May was appointed Marshall deputy director in August 2015 and has been serving as acting director since the Nov. 13 retirement of Patrick Scheuermann.
Javadekar emphasises on spread of awareness on World Wetlands Day
Feb 02, 2016, at 04:37 am
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): In his message for World Wetlands Day, which is observed on Feb 2, Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said it is the day to promote, create awareness and ensure positive and affirmative action for conservation of wetlands.
Films showing smoking scenes should be rated to protect children from tobacco addiction
Feb 01, 2016, at 09:03 pm
Geneva, Feb 1 (IBNS) WHO is calling on governments to rate movies that portray tobacco use in a bid to prevent children and adolescents from starting to smoke cigarettes and use other forms of tobacco.
Fire in Mumbai's Deonar dumping grounds rage on throwing life out of gear on Monday
Feb 01, 2016, at 08:19 pm
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IBNS): As the fire in Mumbai's Deonar garbage dumping ground rages on, covering parts of central Mumbai in thick smog, government schools in the Shivaji Nagar and Deonar area remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Monday.
Jan 31, 2016, at 03:05 pm
Moscow, Jan 31 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 7.2 earthquake hit Russia on Saturday.
Jan 30, 2016, at 11:17 pm
Kolkata, Jan 30 (IBNS): New Delhi-based research and advocacy agency Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has analysed the official ambient air quality monitoring in Kolkata.
Sandy selfie sent from NASA Mars Rover
Jan 30, 2016, at 03:13 pm
California, Jan 30 (IBNS) The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand.
Jan 29, 2016, at 09:06 pm
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IBNS): Union health minister J P Nadda, on Friday, held a high level meeting with his senior officials and the All India Institute of Medical Science to take stock of the situation arising from the spread of Zika virus being reported from some countries.
Mumbai: Dead whale washes ashore Juhu beach
Jan 29, 2016, at 03:03 pm
Mumbai, Jan 29 (Just Earth News/IBNS): A dead 30-feet whale has washed ashore Mumbai's Juhu beach on Thursday, reports said.
Jan 29, 2016, at 02:48 pm
California, Jan 29 (Just Earth News/IBNS): New data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto’s surface than previously thought.
NASA to announce science, technology missions for first flight of Space Launch System
Jan 29, 2016, at 02:41 pm
California, Jan 29 (IBNS) NASA Television will air the announcement of the selection of a fleet of small satellites to launch on the inaugural flight of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS).
Jan 29, 2016, at 12:40 am
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IBNS): Union minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicated to the nation on Thursday a low cost motorized wheelchair, called Locomo, developed by the Department of Biotechnology under the Make-in-India initiative.
Rajasthan launches country's largest crowd sourcing initiative for water conservation
Jan 28, 2016, at 09:50 pm
Kolkata/Jhalawar, Jan 28 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Thursday launched Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan (MJSA), the country’s largest water conservation campaigns in rural areas.
Jan 28, 2016, at 08:53 pm
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IBNS): More than 60 percent women in the 15-49 year age-group in West Bengal suffer from anaemia, reveals the National Family Health Survey 2015-2016.
National Family Health Survey: Tobacco use in WB comes down
Jan 28, 2016, at 07:11 pm
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IBNS) Consumption of tobacco has come down by a little more than 11 per cent in West Bengal, according to the recent reports released by the National Family Health Survey.
NASA radar brings a new view of World Heritage Site
Jan 28, 2016, at 02:21 pm
California, Jan 28 (IBNS) In just two 10-minute overflights, an airborne NASA synthetic aperture radar proved it could pinpoint areas of disturbance in Peru's Nasca lines World Heritage Site.
One in every two children in West Bengal is anaemic, NFHS reveals
Jan 28, 2016, at 02:38 am
Kolkata, Jan 27 (Just Earth News/IBNS): More than half the children under 5 years are still Anaemic in West Bengal, as the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS 4, 2015-‘16) data highlight.
Presence of the elusive snow leopard in Sikkim now confirmed through photographic evidence
Jan 28, 2016, at 01:06 am
Gangtok, Jan 27 (IBNS): Snow leopard conservation and study gets a fillip with the first photographic proof of the animal's presence in the Sikkim Himalayas obtained by World Wide Fund for Nature - India (WWF-India) through camera traps.
Second rhino killed in Kaziranga in less than 48 hours
Jan 27, 2016, at 07:57 pm
Guwahati Jan 27 (IBNS) Two rhinos have been found dead in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam in a span of less than 48 hours, reports said.
Seven die, more than 1,000 affected in jaundice outbreak in Shimla
Jan 27, 2016, at 04:31 pm
Shimla, Jan 27 (IBNS) Seven people have so far died and more than 1,000 have been affected of jaundice following a severe outbreak of jaundice in Shimla over the past month, reports said.
NASA takes part in Airborne Study of Southern Ocean
Jan 27, 2016, at 02:55 pm
California, Jan 27 (IBNS) A team of scientists has launched a series of research flights over the remote seas surrounding Antarctica in an effort to better understand how much carbon dioxide the icy waters are able to lock away.
Blizzard batters USA, more than 13,000 flights cancelled
Jan 26, 2016, at 04:30 pm
Washington/New Delhi, Jan 26 (IBNS) The three day long blizzard have not only left USA battered but have also cancelled a whooping 13,000 flights, according to reports.
'2015 is hottest year on record' - UN weather agency
Jan 26, 2016, at 02:36 pm
New York, Jan 26 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which announced on Monday that for the first time on record, temperatures were about 1 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial era.
Governments must act to reverse alarming rise in childhood obesity, UN report warns
Jan 26, 2016, at 02:17 pm
New York, Jan 26 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Facing a global epidemic in childhood obesity with the number of overweight children under five on track to jump from 42 million to 70 million over the next decade, a United Nations report on Monday called on governments to reverse the trend by promoting healthy foods and physical activity.
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6.1 earthquake hits Mediterranean
Jan 25, 2016, at 11:26 pm
Al Hoceima, Jan 25 (IBNS): An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain on Monday, officials said.
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Jan 25, 2016, at 02:48 am
Alaska, Jan 24 (Just Earth News/IBNS): An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit southern Alaska on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Jan 25, 2016, at 12:29 am
Guwahati, Jan 24 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Poachers killed another one-horned rhinoceros in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park (KNP) on the wee hours of Sunday and managed to flee with its horn.
Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way
Jan 24, 2016, at 09:55 pm
Melbourne, Jan 24 (IBNS): CSIRO on Sunday said its astronomer and first author of a paper released in Science Dr Keith Bannister said the structures appear to be ‘lumps’ in the thin gas that lies between the stars in our Galaxy.